How Much More?

Matthew 24:36-39,42 - But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only. But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming.

As the scripture above says, those were the days in which Noah lived. God had had enough. And the LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. So the LORD said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.” But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. (Genesis 6:6-8)

So what more can I say? Jesus is clearly saying He will return at a time only His Father knows. Things in this world will have to be pretty ugly for that to happen. Signs were given for us to know those times and season. If God destroyed the earth once and He says He will return once again to bring final judgment, why wouldn’t we be wanting to heed His words, like Noah did?

One of the names of Jesus is the Door. There is but one way to God the Father. We either heed His words today or we don’t. The door to the ark was the only way Noah, his family and anyone (yet no one) could enter to safety. We either go into that Door today and be saved or we perish like those people in Noah’s day. 

There will always be scoffers. I grieve over those who don’t believe He will return, that our days will get better, that we will make America great again, that peace and security is what the world wants and if that’s so, it should happen. We cannot trust man but we can trust God.

True peace and security can only be found in Jesus Christ. We are to heed His warnings. Yes, we continue with life, but we always have God and His Word in our hearts. The things of the world, as the song states, will grow strangely dim in the light and the glory of His grace. I was noticing this morning how things that seemed so important to me just are not anymore. I believe that is the Lord changing me to do as He says, not cling to the things of this world because our world is not on earth but in heaven. 

I know many of my church friends and I look up with excitement and anticipation for the day He will return. We are also to endure to the end of our life if He should take us before His return with the same anticipation of being with Him in that perfect world to come. It's harder for me to live in this world; I endure knowing that the glorious end will be near.

This is not a gloomy subject unless one's church does not talk about it. It's not gloomy if one has that relationship, that knowing, that one is born again. Many churches don't preach born again. Look up what that means; find scriptures that explain what it is and how it is achieved (and the words of one simple prayer will not save; but a heart willing to change and receive Christ will).

2Timothy 3:1-4 - But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God...